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William Fields

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Poetry Sunday on WCAI

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Tim Exile

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Robert Henke

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Pauline Oliveros

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Olivia Jack

Studio talk with Olivia Jack, Richard Devine, William Fields and Speedy J. In this podcast varying guests from the field of electronic music chat about gear, music production, art, studio techniques, and everything else that occupies their minds. Just a bunch of knob twiddlers who are knowledgeable in their niche sharing insights and stories among each other and with an audience.   www.patreon.com/stoor

Studio talk with Olivia Jack, Richard Devine, William Fields and Speedy J. In this podcast varying guests from the field of electronic music chat about gear, music production, art, studio techniques, and everything else that occupies their minds. Just a bunch of knob twiddlers who are knowledgeable in their niche sharing insights and stories among each other and with an audience. <a href="http://www.patreon.com/stoor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/stoor</a>

KTH #25 - Olivia Jack, Richard Devine, William Fields, Speedy J

William Fields reads his poem, "The Sea."

Poetry Sunday: William Fields 

My guest is a master of the dark arts.  A minimalist with a big sound.  A pioneer and a deeply clever chap. He’s an audio visual mash man that’s got tasty taste. A rare combo! Some may be aware of the music master mind that is William Fields but to those of you that don’t know him he’s very much needing to be on your radar. I got into a small side road ramble whilst in conversation with Richard Devine on EP 57 and we were talking about limitations in eurorack for sequencing and how he wanted to get into using a computer with algorithmic composition tools to vastly expand the possibilities. I asked him if there was anyone out there making any listenable algorithmic shit and he told me of William Fields and the rest is history. Get over to Williams FieldsOS page on band camp NOW! There’s 24 tracks up there that are.. get this. 59 mins long EACH . WTF? https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos Long form expert explorations of a style.  One is called Footwork, another UK Garage and then there's the fantastically bonkers Unconstrained. It’s mind boggling stuff and I wanted to know what the hell was going on so ... Stay tuned! Links to William’s latest releases, both from January: https://kaer-uiks.bandcamp.com/album/imperfekt https://shop.conditional.club/album/shackamaxon… _ Music for this episode comes from: Luke Bace  ~aka~ LakeCube ---------------- SoundCloud BandCamp Spotify __ Shout outs! In this time of streaming  I wanted to give a shout out to Divkid for keep everyone informed about goings on with the streams. https://divkidvideo.com What did I watch so far? Colin Benders (great modular techno) Kieran Hebden who did a fantastic Boiler room streamed set and raised $10,365 for the Global Food Banking Network https://www.foodbanking.org Here’s that set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXQi77eOdEY Andrew Huang put together his march earnings and gave to  @DirectRelief for their efforts in the pandemic. He raised $6541.70!  I made some new stuff: Grab my companion pack to follow up on the marvelous work of @Hainbach101 Find the samples here : https://jamielidell.bandcamp.com/releases They are Free or donate as you like… I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by the response. Thanks to all of you for grabbing it! I hope it brings you some funk! It’s still very much available.  _ So sad to hear about Bill Withers. It’s just one that weighs heavy on me. What a singular talent, what an example of a pure soul.  The honesty just shines through in his work. Hit me hard. RIP Bill. I felt inspired to try and make my own humble tribute to the man.  I reached out to my friend in hiding, Chancey and he immediately had bass and guitar recorded for the song. I’ve actually since had my neighbour across the street, Rob Burger add some additional keys  There MIGHT well be a special guest making a string arrangement in a month. Fingers crossed. I’ve been really moved by the speed of response out there to this idea. Everyone’s been amazing.  Here’s the video of the song: https://bit.ly/2Re8Tax _ Today’s nitty is a first for this show. After 134 weeks of making this thing I’ve gone and made a video for the nitty. A viddy nitty if you will. It’s a tear away from the recent sample pack video I made. A few people liked the motor piano clip so I figured I’d try an expanded idea emerging form that little seed. I have been trying to keep productive in my evenings which is when I get to work.  I apologize for the slackness getting this show out but I’ve been trying to get my head around lots of things im no good at! My wife is an incredible visual artist. She’s long been a professional photographer so we have lots of good cameras in the house but its definitely HER world. Anyway after the sample pack vid I started the journey on the video making road.  VIDEO HERE! https://youtu.be/po7vPCa-t8E First of many hopefully! Thanks for joining me folks. Likes, Camera, nitty!

My guest is a master of the dark arts.  A minimalist with a big sound.  A pioneer and a deeply clever chap. He’s an audio visual mash man that’s got tasty taste. A rare combo! Some may be aware of the music master mind that is William Fields but to those of you that don’t know him he’s very much needing to be on your radar. I got into a small side road ramble whilst in conversation with Richard Devine on EP 57 and we were talking about limitations in eurorack for sequencing and how he wanted to get into using a computer with algorithmic composition tools to vastly expand the possibilities. I asked him if there was anyone out there making any listenable algorithmic shit and he told me of William Fields and the rest is history. Get over to Williams FieldsOS page on band camp NOW! There’s 24 tracks up there that are.. get this. 59 mins long EACH . WTF? <a href="https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos</a> Long form expert explorations of a style.  One is called Footwork, another UK Garage and then there's the fantastically bonkers Unconstrained. It’s mind boggling stuff and I wanted to know what the hell was going on so ... Stay tuned! Links to William’s latest releases, both from January: <a href="https://t.co/arqGcfAmlD?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://kaer-uiks.bandcamp.com/album/imperfekt</a> <a href="https://t.co/vOsPSDfMLE?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shop.conditional.club/album/shackamaxon…</a> _ Music for this episode comes from: Luke Bace  ~aka~ LakeCube ---------------- <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lakecube" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a> <a href="https://lakecube.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BandCamp</a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XCwABPszLoZQkvkm3Zrxy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> __ Shout outs! In this time of streaming  I wanted to give a shout out to Divkid for keep everyone informed about goings on with the streams. <a href="https://divkidvideo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://divkidvideo.com</a> What did I watch so far? Colin Benders (great modular techno) Kieran Hebden who did a fantastic Boiler room streamed set and raised $10,365 for the Global Food Banking Network <a href="https://www.foodbanking.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.foodbanking.org</a> Here’s that set: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXQi77eOdEY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXQi77eOdEY</a> Andrew Huang put together his march earnings and gave to  <a href="https://twitter.com/DirectRelief" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@DirectRelief</a> for their efforts in the pandemic. He raised $6541.70!  I made some new stuff: Grab my companion pack to follow up on the marvelous work of @Hainbach101 Find the samples here : <a href="https://jamielidell.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jamielidell.bandcamp.com/releases</a> They are Free or donate as you like… I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by the response. Thanks to all of you for grabbing it! I hope it brings you some funk! It’s still very much available.  _ So sad to hear about Bill Withers. It’s just one that weighs heavy on me. What a singular talent, what an example of a pure soul.  The honesty just shines through in his work. Hit me hard. RIP Bill. I felt inspired to try and make my own humble tribute to the man.  I reached out to my friend in hiding, Chancey and he immediately had bass and guitar recorded for the song. I’ve actually since had my neighbour across the street, Rob Burger add some additional keys  There MIGHT well be a special guest making a string arrangement in a month. Fingers crossed. I’ve been really moved by the speed of response out there to this idea. Everyone’s been amazing.  Here’s the video of the song: <a href="https://bit.ly/2Re8Tax" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2Re8Tax</a> _ Today’s nitty is a first for this show. After 134 weeks of making this thing I’ve gone and made a video for the nitty. A viddy nitty if you will. It’s a tear away from the recent sample pack video I made. A few people liked the motor piano clip so I figured I’d try an expanded idea emerging form that little seed. I have been trying to keep productive in my evenings which is when I get to work.  I apologize for the slackness getting this show out but I’ve been trying to get my head around lots of things im no good at! My wife is an incredible visual artist. She’s long been a professional photographer so we have lots of good cameras in the house but its definitely HER world. Anyway after the sample pack vid I started the journey on the video making road.  VIDEO HERE! <a href="https://youtu.be/po7vPCa-t8E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/po7vPCa-t8E</a> First of many hopefully! Thanks for joining me folks. Likes, Camera, nitty!

HOWA EP 67 - WILLIAM FIELDS

There are many ways to create a body of work. You can crunch away at tracks, canvases or blocks of marble, building more and more until you have the body of work that you can share as your work. Or, alternatively, you can create a system, fine-tune it, and use it to create an array of work that is representative of your ideas - and the expression of you working with your system. This is how William Fields works. The system that he's created - through years of iterating, integrating and coding - is the basis for his FieldsOS radio show work (found here: https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos), his live performances and his releases on several labels. Digging into his website (https://williamfields.com/), you'll be able to experience the many different ways he approaches using the work - and you can track his releases over the years as well. This was a super-exciting interview for me, and reminded me of the power of long-form work; iterating on your systems can have a powerful effect on the work you are able to create! Enjoy! (Note: for folks on my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/darwingrosse - William has created a special track for second- and third-tier supporters. Take a listen!)

There are many ways to create a body of work. You can crunch away at tracks, canvases or blocks of marble, building more and more until you have the body of work that you can share as your work. Or, alternatively, you can create a system, fine-tune it, and use it to create an array of work that is representative of your ideas - and the expression of you working with your system. This is how William Fields works. The system that he's created - through years of iterating, integrating and coding - is the basis for his FieldsOS radio show work (found here: <a href="https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://williamfields.bandcamp.com/album/fieldsos</a>), his live performances and his releases on several labels. Digging into his website (<a href="https://williamfields.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://williamfields.com/</a>), you'll be able to experience the many different ways he approaches using the work - and you can track his releases over the years as well. This was a super-exciting interview for me, and reminded me of the power of long-form work; iterating on your systems can have a powerful effect on the work you are able to create! Enjoy! (Note: for folks on my Patreon - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/darwingrosse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/darwingrosse</a> - William has created a special track for second- and third-tier supporters. Take a listen!)